Subject: Re: Wednesday 22 October 2014 by TommyT-Bone on 2014/10/23 10:23:05
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pianoguy wrote:
Tommy, your gutter story reminded me of the last time I wallpapered the dining room. I had just finished putting up the last piece, and had already put away my step-stool, when I noticed that where that piece met the ceiling it needed to be trimmed a little better (this was around midnight, and we had company coming the next day). So I scooted a dining chair over near the wall and climbed up on that. I had to lean ever so slightly to one side, and the next thing I knew, the chair tipped over and sliced a hole in the wall, clean through the sheetrock. So I got to spend a bunch more quality time repairing it.
And that's how Brad became a member of "The Hole In The Wall Gang".
Here's the killer. I had it in place and was trying to screw in a self tapping aluminum screw. The hex screw head kept falling out of the socket. I couldn't hold it in place any longer. After several attempts to start the screw, the weight (and the shoulder) required me to put my end of the gutter back down to the ground. I was 99% there. It was then that I came up with the dead man support idea. Stuff like that is always funny as long as it's not happening to you.
